Transition Black Isle is part of the worldwide Transition movement, and we see our role as helping Black Isle communities thrive in the face of climate change and disruption to global resources.  Our activities include encouraging non-car travel, promoting energy saving measures, running community markets, supporting local food producers as well as helping people to grow more of their own food and to make their own compost.

As a partner in the Highland Community Waste Partnership, TBI is actively working with the community to reduce waste and consumption and increase reuse, repair and recycling.

Katherine Viner   We are the 89 percent

As a stushie erupts in Parliament, the Labour Party and the media over Tony Blair's proposition that the government's net zero policies are not working and should be watered down because 'voters' are not prepared to make inconvenient lifestyle changes from which they can see no significant results; and that efforts to phase out fossil fuels in the short term should be relaxed and attention concentrated instead on technological fixes such as Carbon Capture and Storage and small modular nuclear power stations, it is instructive to note Editor-in-chief Katherine Viner's article 'We are the 89%' in last Saturday's Guardian online.

The crux of her case is that a larger proportion of the world’s population than we are led to believe by politicians and the media want to see strong action being taken by their governments to tackle the climate crisis, and that dispelling the myth that most people don’t care could spark a social tipping point and supercharge climate action.

In collaboration with other likeminded media organisations The Guardian has launched the '89% project' to promote this message around the world.

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